This is the first in-depth study of kalarippayattu - one of India's traditional martial, and medical arts dating from at least the 12th century AD. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this study traces how kalarippayattu is a mode of cultural practice through which bodies, knowledges, powers, agency, selves, and identities are constantly repositioned.

When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art

Politics & Social Sciences

Zarrilli, Phillip B.

Anthropology

Oxford University Press

This is the first in-depth study of kalarippayattu - one of India's traditional martial and medical arts dating from at least the 12th century AD. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this study traces how kalarippayattu is a mode of cultural practice through which bodies, knowledges, powers, agency, selves, and identities are constantly repositioned.

Arts & Photography

'A work that more than any other currently available suggests the range and richness of theatre and performance history study today.' – Marvin Carlson, City University of New York, USA 'This book will significantly change theatre education.' – Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Irvine, USA 'Globally ambitious in its scope, innovative in design, and open-ended in its challenge to the received histories, this new grand narrative will engage scholars and students at every level, whatever their particular interests in past performance.' – Jacky Bratton, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 'Finally we have a book that conceives theatre history in world terms and breaks down the Euro-American boundaries that have marginalised the theatres of other cultures for so long.' – Brian Singleton, The University of Dublin, Trinity College This new edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre historians.  Completely revised and renewed in colour, enhancements and new material include:    a full-colour text design with added timelines to each opening section a wealth of new colour illustrations to help convey the vitality of performances described new case studies on African, Asian and Western subjects a new chapter on modernism, and updated and expanded chapters and part introductions fuller definitions of terms and concepts throughout in a new glossary a re-designed support website offering links to new audio-visual resources, expanded bibliographies, approaches to teaching theatre and performance history, discussion questions relating to case studies and an online glossary  

Theatre Histories: An Introduction

McConachie, Bruce

Williams, Gary Jay

Fisher Sorgenfrei, Carol

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

'A work that more than any other currently available suggests the range and richness of theatre and performance history study today.' – Marvin Carlson, City University of New York, USA 'This book will significantly change theatre education.' – Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Irvine, USA 'Globally ambitious in its scope, innovative in design, and open-ended in its challenge to the received histories, this new grand narrative will engage scholars and students at every level, whatever their particular interests in past performance.' – Jacky Bratton, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 'Finally we have a book that conceives theatre history in world terms and breaks down the Euro-American boundaries that have marginalised the theatres of other cultures for so long.' – Brian Singleton, The University of Dublin, Trinity College This new edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre historians. Completely revised and renewed in colour, enhancements and new material include: <ul>
<li>a full-colour text design with added timelines to each opening section</li> <li>a wealth of new colour illustrations to help convey the vitality of performances described</li> <li>new case studies on African, Asian and Western subjects</li> <li>a new chapter on modernism, and updated and expanded chapters and part introductions</li> <li>fuller definitions of terms and concepts throughout in a new glossary</li> <li>a re-designed support website offering links to new audio-visual resources, expanded bibliographies, approaches to teaching theatre and performance history, discussion questions relating to case studies and an online glossary</li>
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Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski

Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today’s actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to approach their work. Areas of focus include:  an historical overview of a psychophysical approach to acting from Stanislavski to the present acting as an ‘energetics’ of performance, applied to a wide range of playwrights: Samuel Beckett, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Kaite O’Reilly and Ota Shogo a system of training though yoga and Asian martial arts that heightens sensory awareness, dynamic energy, and in which body and mind become one practical application of training principles to improvisation exercises.   Psychophysical Acting is accompanied by Peter Hulton’s interactive DVD-ROM featuring exercises, production documentation, interviews, and reflection.

Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today’s actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to approach their work. Areas of focus include: <ul>
<li>an historical overview of a psychophysical approach to acting from Stanislavski to the present</li> <li>acting as an ‘energetics’ of performance, applied to a wide range of playwrights: Samuel Beckett, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Kaite O’Reilly and Ota Shogo</li> <li>a system of training though yoga and Asian martial arts that heightens sensory awareness, dynamic energy, and in which body and mind become one</li> <li>practical application of training principles to improvisation exercises.</li> </ul> Psychophysical Acting is accompanied by Peter Hulton’s interactive DVD-ROM featuring exercises, production documentation, interviews, and reflection.

History

Americas

This new edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating the methods and interpretive approaches used by today's theatre historians. Completely revised and renewed in color, enhancements and new material include: <ul>
<li>a full-color text design with added timelines to each opening section</li> <li>a wealth of new color illustrations to help convey the vitality of performances described</li> <li>new case studies on African, Asian, and Western subjects</li> <li>a new chapter on modernism, and updated and expanded chapters and part introductions</li> <li>fuller definitions of terms and concepts throughout in a new glossary </li> <li>a re-designed support website offering links to new audio-visual resources, expanded bibliographies, approaches to teaching theatre and performance history, discussion questions relating to case studies and an online glossary.</li> </ul>

Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance

rep. of 1990 classic. essays by leading scholars on Indian classical tradiiton, Sanskrit theater, dance, Ras Lila, folk and popular culture, dance dramas. used widely as a text

Richmond, Farley P.

Swann, Darius L.

Univ of Hawaii Pr

rep. of 1990 classic. essays by leading scholars on Indian classical tradiiton, Sanskrit theater, dance, Ras Lila, folk and popular culture, dance dramas. used widely as a text

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When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art

When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art

Theatre Histories: An Introduction

Theatre Histories: An Introduction

Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski

Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski

Theatre Histories: An Introduction

Theatre Histories: An Introduction

Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance

Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance